The Twitter Fascination

[Doctor Phibes]

@copper said in The Twitter Fascination:

You can be a fool here without the family and friends watching.

Presumably most or us here are at least in part alter-egos. I know I'm not really the same person here that I am in real life. In real life I'm a lot better looking and smarter. Hard to believe, I know.

[Renauda]

Have never used Twitter and have no plans ever to use it.

[jon-nyc]

I agree political twitter is a shit show.

But twitter is what you make it. What you see on your timeline depends on who you follow.

You can make it politics free. You can just follow a narrowly tailored list of people and have it be focused on (say) history or archeology or filmmaking or whatever your interest might be.

[Loki]

I don’t use it either. I only allow so many interruptions.

I turn off all notifications as well. I make sure I actively go to a place to be interrupted. This place too serves as a good curator of content.

Jon’s suggestion to me to stop watching CNN was one of the better pieces of advice I got in 2020. I stopped my NYT as well. It works almost as well as meditation.

[Horace]

I have stopped checking into lots of things through the second half of 2020. CNN, Facebook, Twitter, WTF to name a few.

[89th]

@doctor-phibes said in The Twitter Fascination:

In real life I'm a lot better looking and smarter.

I've met him, and this is fake news. SAD!

[bachophile]

As an example of what I posted above, here is someone I follow on Twitter which never ceases to amaze/amuse me

All invited to join her feed

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in The Twitter Fascination:

@doctor-phibes said in The Twitter Fascination:

In real life I'm a lot better looking and smarter.

I've met him, and this is fake news. SAD!

That was me sober. When I've had a few beers I'm like a cross between Brad Pitt and Stephen Hawking.

Well OK, I debate like Brad Pitt and I dance like Stephen Hawking, but still, it's a freaking start, OK???